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Controversy in London around a promotional film of the Olympics 2012 The passage of the Olympic relay Sunday in Beijing 2008 to London 2012 was marked by a controversy surrounding a video promoting the British capital. It contains a portrait of a infanticide painted by the artist Marcus Harvey. The portrait of Myra Hindley appears in a three-minute video which shows the artistic strengths and tourist city of London. This woman was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing four children between 1963 and 1964 with the complicity of her lover. The video, presented in Beijing at the House of London, has aroused the irritation of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who was present at the screening. He informed by one of its spokesmen that the use of this table was "very bad taste" and that the painting would not have appeared in a promotional video. Visit London, the company responsible for the promotion of London 2012 Olympic city, said in a statement that the painting by Marcus Harvey is very stealthily in this video. In addition, it has already been presented several times without ever generating reactions. The company adds, however, that if this video is deemed offensive, she would withdraw. The table Marcus Hindley, who died in 2002, was vandalized with ink and eggs at an exhibition in 1997 at the Royal Academy in London.